Kohli and Pujara in action
Virat Kohli Coming back after this year’s poor performance IPL, He showed his class and played a brilliant innings of 67 runs in 98 balls. On the other hand, Shreyas Iyer and Ravindra Jadeja He also scored a half-century and helped India finish their second innings at 364/7 against Leicestershire on the third day of their warm-up match.
Cheteshwar Pujara could only score 22 runs in 53 balls with the help of three fours. Pujara batted from both sides. He was dismissed for zero in Leicestershire’s first innings on Friday.
Jadeja too was dismissed for a duck by Navdeep Saini at the start of the Indian second innings but later came out to bat again as it was just a practice match.
Fast bowler Navdeep Saini, one of four Indian players for Leicestershire, took three wickets for the county side.
Another Indian player Kamlesh Nagarkoti also took two wickets, while R Sai Kishore and Will Davis took one wicket each.
The Indians are still ahead of Leicestershire by 366 runs at stumps with one day left in the match.
Earlier, Saini, who raised Shubman GillThe wicket of the second day, the well-established Srikar dismissed India and Jadeja in the space of three balls to drop India to 118/4.
But it was Hanuma Vihari who was the first to be dismissed by Will Davis after adding just 11 runs to his overnight score.
Seventeen runs later, Saini hit a double in an over in the form of Bharat and Jadeja.
Nagarkoti gave wickets to Iyer and Shardul Thakur in the space of seven overs.
Pujara didn’t help his cause as he was stumped by Sam Bates off Sai Kishore.
Kohli got out Jasprit BumrahWhile Iyer was the last batsman to be dismissed by Nagarkoti.
Rohit Sharma, Mohammed ShamiAnd Umesh Yadav Have to bat now.
(Inputs by PTI)